We all know the benefits and necessity of the composting plant and food waste. Without compost pit can not do any suburban area with a garden. On the one hand, we get rid of large quantities of waste, the other get a lot of nutritious and useful fertilizer. With the use of classical composting is unlikely someone could argue.
However, it is useful liquid compost, which many gardeners like to say? Does he really is a compost fertilizer and worth spending time on it? Let's investigate.
1. What is a liquid compost
In recent years, I've heard a lot of recipes for liquid compost. All of them are different dosages, its component parts, and sometimes even terms. But are all about the same.
Liquid compost is 2-week infusion on shredded vegetable waste. Usually it has done in a barrel in warm weather. The resulting liquid fed horticultural crops, and the remaining thick buried in the ground as fertilizer.
2. How to cook the liquid compost
Prepare liquid compost is not difficult. This will require a large 200 liter steel drum. (These are typically used for collecting rain water).
Fill the barrel of a 60% finely chopped crop residues: grass, weeds or tops.
If the compost you'll use the weeds, be sure to remove them from the roots and seed pods.
Fill the barrel with warm water with the addition of urea. (500 grams of urea per 100 liters). Content barrels stirred well and tightly cover with a lid. Some gardeners prefer to make ventilation holes for exhaust outlet.
Infused liquid compost for about 2 weeks in a barrel on the warm sunny location. During fermentation, the mass will have to be 3-4 times to mix with a stick or a pitchfork. After the lapse of 14 days fertilizer ready.
If desired, the barrel can add 400-500 grams of superphosphate. When adding the contents to be mixed.
Feed can be everything that grows in your garden. The resulting diluted tincture water in a ratio 1 to 5 and pour culture.
3. Liquid compost proved simple tincture?
As we can see from the recipe, liquid compost - it is nothing more than a long herbal tincture. In such a short period (10 to 15 days) the crop can not fully decompose and turn into humus. Even despite the fact that the waste in the water with the addition of urea.
Grounds, which then burrows under shrubs as a fertilizer, is also not a full-fledged compost. It has yet to go through the process of decay and decomposition.
4. How helpful was this infusion
As we have seen, the liquid compost is not compost. Therefore, it can not be compared with the fertilizer derived from the usual pits. These are different things. But is it worth while to spend time on it?
Yes, the time spent is worth it. This tincture has many advantages over other usual dressings.
- It has a low cost. Only have to spend money on urea;
- The cooking process does not require much effort and time;
- As a result, you get the liquid fertilizer, as well as rotting grass. Which in future will turn into compost.
In the end, I would like to say that this herbal infusion is useful and necessary kitchen garden, but do not replace the compost.
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